Most recent submissions by user "wasker"
Registered since: June 3, 2008
Multiline text box bug in digital signature viewer
There's a multiline text box in digital signature viewer. Unfortunately, it unusable: the red circle shows where scroll bar is.
Increase text box size or use some other type of control.
Low
Low
Not fixed
All operations on files on WebDAV file share display progress windows with outdated icons
Any operation on file on WebDAV share which shows progress window (copy or delete for instance) will use outdated circa Windows 2000 icon in that progress window.
Update icons.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Error Applying File Attributes dialog box doesn't follow Aero UI styles
Error Applying File Attributes dialog box doesn't follow Aero UI styles: obviously custom dialog box is being shown instead of a standard one.
Bring the dialog up to modern requirements.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Reliability and Performance Monitor doesn't use Vista styles
Reliability and Performance monitor doesn't look like the rest of Vista info centers, doesn't use Vista style for progress bar.
Make it look like the rest of Vista information centers.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Website doesn't scale properly and doesn't look good in IE7
Please see the screenshot for details.
Low
Low
Not fixed
System information looks outdated
System information window looks very '9x-ish; font size and family are not system default.
Fix look-n-feel.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Explorer toolbars have inconsistent graphics
IE7 and Explorer display toolbars bars inconsistently.
1) Space between Forward and Back buttons is different.
2) Space occupied by Forward/Back buttons and history drop down is different.
3) History drop down button has different (more...)
Share resources and UI libraries, make UI consistent.
High
High
Not fixed
Productivity suite inconsistency big time
Vista sports three basic productivity applications: Mail, Calendar and Contacts. All three have different look.
Let's see:
1) Contacts uses Explorer window, Mail and Calendar use their own windows.
2) Toolbar colors are (more...)
Can we please have basic apps consistent in Windows?
High
High
Not fixed
Recycle Bin confirmations
There's an option for displaying confirmation dialog when deleting a file to Recycle Bin. Turning off this option will turn off the dialog when user presses Delete key. The dialog still appears when user presses Shift-Del (permanent delete). Behavior (more...)
Shell must detect cases when Recycle Bin is absent and ask user for confirmation even if the confirmation option was turned off.
In fact, the shell is aware of "absent Recycle Bin" situation (Delete File dialog is being displayed (more...)
High
High
Not fixed
Sidebar shuffles gadgets
From time to time I notice that sidebar shuffled all my gadget and their order is not the same as it was.
Gadgets must always be in order I selected.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Paint MUST be replaced
Stock Paint application is outdated, feature-limited, ugly and must be thrown away from the modern operating system environment.
Replace Paint with more sophisticated application. Paint.NET looks very promising.
Low
Medium
Fixed
Tray clock should be upgraded
Tray clock functionality is under-utilized. Current date and day of week is being shown only in double-height taskbar.
I believe in the age of high-resolution computing, people who use huge screen resolutions might want to sacrifice fifty or so pixels to see current date and day of week along with the time (like "Tue, June 3, 9:04PM"). I'd like to have (more...)
Low
Low
Fixed
Power plan editor window is busy and requires too much clicks
Advanced power plan editor window looks too busy, settings tree size is way small for such amount of options, each option requires too many unnecessary clicks to access its editor.
Show options editors at-a-glance; make window bigger and not that crowded; put meaningful descriptions to things like "Link State Power Management" or "USB selective suspend setting".
Low
Low
Not fixed
Font in Search Results Preview pane gets reset to System
For some reason the font in Search Results pane gets reset to System and looks ugly.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Tab order in File Open/Save dialogs broken
When Aero-style File Open/Save dialog is in Details mode, Shift-Tab moves focus from initial File Name text box to the list header, not to the list, which doesn't make sense and makes user press Shift-Tab over and over again.
PS.
(more...)
Fix the tab order, so Shift-Tab would focus the list, not the header.
Medium
Medium
Not fixed